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# wake

«wake» in Mova's school dictionary: **to stop sleeping** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (wake, wakes, woke, woken, waking); noun (a wake — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To wake, or wake up, means to stop sleeping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wake/#m1)

2) To wake someone is to make them stop sleeping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wake/#m2)

3) The wake of a boat is the line of waves it leaves behind on the water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wake/#m3)

4) «In the wake of» means after something and because of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wake/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: a clock time in a story; hours of sleep from bedtime to wake time. In everyday life: waking up for school, an alarm clock that wakes you, being quiet so as not to wake the baby. In stories: a hero who wakes in a strange place. Phrases: «wake up», «wake-up call», «wide awake».

### examples

- She wakes up at 7:00. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wake/#x1)
- He went to bed at 9:00 and woke at 6:00. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wake/#x2)
- How many hours did he sleep? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wake/#x3)
- They woke up 30 minutes late. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wake/#x4)
- Shh, don't wake the baby! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wake/#x5)
- My alarm wakes me every school day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wake/#x6)
- Bears wake up in spring after sleeping all winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wake/#x7)
- The boat left a long white wake behind it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wake/#x8)
- Are you sleeping, or are you waking?" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wake/#x9)

### note

Past «woke», past participle «woken» («I have woken»). «Wake up» and «get up» differ: you can wake up and stay in bed. «Awake» means not asleep. Maths: gives an end time; sleep time = wake time − bedtime, counting past midnight (9:00 at night to 6:00 in the morning is 9 hours, not 3).

### In the corpora

- [Mediterranean tortoises hibernate, and owners guided by a vet keep them steady at about 5 degrees so they neither wake early nor freeze.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/55-sleep-and-hibernation/16/)
- [Cave bears slept through the winter in caves, and many never woke up, so some caves hold the bones of thousands.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses/5/)
- [Toad: «What carts I shall fling carelessly into the ditch in the wake of my magnificent onset!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/25/)
- [Back home, a coal slips in the fire and the Rat wakes up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/34-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood/8/)
- [Then «a small sting of frozen sleet on the skin woke them as from a dream».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/41-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wake» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wake/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.